I worried a bit that a 9/11 meme might be too insensitive, but there is a gravity to this, because this is a matter of salvation and domination.

There are Protestants and Evangelicals like Stephen Anderson and the Iglesia di Cristo who falsely teach that the Sign of the Cross is in fact the Mark of the Beast. Meanwhile, there are other Protestants like Doug Wilson who dont believe there's anything intrinsically wrong with the Sign of the Cross, but discourage it due to it being "too Catholic". By the way, if you think that expressing faith in the Most Holy Trinity and hope in the salvific power of Christ's sacrifice on the Cross is "too Catholic"), then I exhort you to revaluate the way you live out the Christian faith.

However, both groups are gravely mistaken. In Ezekiel 9 and Revelation 7, we see that, as well as the Mark of the Beast, there is also a Mark on the foreheads of the Faithful, which spares them from being damned, and all those without this Mark (men, women, old men, even children) are not spared. Well, what is this Mark? In Ezekiel 9, it is identified with the tav, the last letter of the Hebrew Alphabet, which in it's oldest form was the shape of a cross; + . Early Church Fathers like St Jerome identified this as the Sign of the Vross for obvious reasons. This is why St Francis of Assisi loved the Tau so much, and why even today, every Sunday we do the sign of the Cross on our forehead before the Gospel reading.

Thus, the Sign of the Cross is not satanic condemnation, nor is it powerless superstition, nor is it even a cute but mundane tradition. It is salvific, a sign of the awesome power of our Triune God, and of the sacrifice of Christ Crucified. Do not blaspheme against the Hoky Spirit, and do not abstain from this holy weapon against demonic forces, otherwise you will be like a Hebrew who refuses to mark the door to his house with the blood of the Lamb before God sends His angel of death. God bless you, and may He have mercy on us all.

Atheism is unnatural

Sirach was preserved in Hebrew among the Dead Sea Scrolls, and St Augustine affirmed its scriptural authority btw.

A distinguished prelate came to meet Gemma. Unable to avoid the visitor, she took a large cat, cuddled it around her neck and behaved childishly.

He means well tho and I will be attending a service at his church after I attend Mass